Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-07
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
An Epitsme Of The PRINCIPAL Events Now
Attracting Public Interest

Halfa 100 lives have cen lost in Hot d
caused by the rising Of the Nile.
John Kernaghan WAS hanged in the
county Jail at San Francisco for the
murder of his sister-in-law, Martha
Ann Hood, October 80, 1885.
A negro named Joe Dixon, who shot
woman at Ouray, Col, was drowned
in the Jail at that place by firemen who
were putting out a fire started by
lynchers.
The new dynamite gun was tried at
Fort Lafayette in presence of the Sec
rotary of the Navy and foreign repre-
sentatives. Two shots tore an 50 ton
schooner to pieces a mile and a quarter
distant.
The British steamer Romeo, Capt.
Williams, from New Oileans, Aug. 30,
for Rouen, grounded at Vilieguier and
capsized An engineer and fireman
and thirteen OF her crew and passen-
gers were drowned. The Romeo is IA
total loss.
w. B. Horton, post trader at San
Carlos, A. r., was shot and killed by
an Apache scout. He was standing
in front Of his store when the Indian
stole up and shot him through the
side. The Indian attempted to escape,
but two hours after was taken, shot,
and lived two hours.
A horrible acc :dent on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway, near
Dubuque, Iowa. The north and south
bound passenger trains collided at full
speed. Five persons were killed out
right and many were injured. All the
victims were train men. None of the
passengers were seriously injured.
/ The Nevada, Eastern Oregon and
Idaho Wool Growers Association
clt sed its annual meeting at Winnie
mucca, Nevada. There was " large
attendance and the following officers
were elected: President, Thomas Mel
son; ViceP President, Charles McCon
nell Secretary. George Turriln Treas.
ur,r, L. A. Blakslee.
A construction train on the Aspen
extension of the Midland Railway,
consisting Of an engine and two cars
Of railroad irons and 2S7 track layers
was d9railed near Lake Ivanhoe, Colo
RADIO. The cars turned completely over,
burying the men under the iron, kill
ing four and seriously iniuring sixty
one. The engineer and fireman es-
capped unhu1t.
The steamship Alesia, which arrived
at New York from Malseilles and Ma
pies with six hundred passen gers, has
the Asiatic cholera aboard. Eight of
her passengers died on the passage,
and on her arrival at quarantine, the
health officer found four cases aboard
He has sent the Alesia and her pas
sengers to West Bank in the lower
bay. The Alesia left Marseilles, Aug
Both, and Naples Sept Sd.
The steamer City of Picking, which
sailed from San Francisco, took to
China complete set of mining ma
chinery to be used in developing gold
mines in the north of China. This ell
terprise has been started by Chinese
capitalists, with the consent and under
the protection of the government.
This is the second fully equipped
quartz mill machinery shipped from
this country to the celestial empire.
The annual convention of the Ma.
tional Association of Union Prisoners
OF the War was held at Chicago. John
McElroy, of Washington, presided.
The comnlittee on pensions reported a
N n IN civ ,,F Al.
war who were ninety.day men a half
pension, l20 days men Il two thirds
pension, and full pension to those
who served longer. 1t also provides ~
day pension for each days confine
ment i'll a rebel prison,
A special from Lincoln Neb., saws;
" A workingman named Smith was
terribly mutilated. Hanging from a
telegraph pole, and lying along the
ground, was broken telephone wire.
which had become crossed, or in con.
nection with one of the electric light
wires. As Smith WIS passing along
the street he saw the wire burning,
and was attracted by the strange APP
pearance and evidently took hold of it
to ascertain what it meant. The shock
he received was terrific. He could not
loos en- his hold on the wire, and burnt
his hands to the bone. In his with
lngs and contortions the charged wire
came in contact with his head. burn
ing out one OF his eyes and laying the
side of his face open. Wherever it
struck his body it cut like knife,
Smith is now lying at the hospital, and
it is feared he will not recover"
A cyclone visited Brownsville, Tex,
carrying destruction in its path. Rain
accompanying the storm deluged the
country for miles, The loss to prom
erty and crops is very great The vii
liase of Santa Cruz, opposite Browns
vile, was entirely submerged for sew
eral hours. The Rio Grande rose ran
IDLY and ragged like sea, backwater
overlooking many miles of fertile coup-
try. The wind reached a velocity of
over eighty miles an hour, Blowing a
perfect hurricane for a couple of hours.
Rainfall during the night, by actual
measurement, reached ten inches
The floods did almost as much damage
as the wind. In Brownsville seventy
small houses We're blown down, and
300 others partially unroofed. In Ma
tamoras dozens of houses of the better
class, and two hundred smaller ones.
were Frustrated, while four to five hmm.
bred others We're unroofed. In the
country, on the American side of tbo